A Functional Discourse Grammar account of voice in Plains Algonquian Languages
Author
Corral Esteban, AvelinoEntity
UAM. Departamento de Filología InglesaPublisher
De Gruyter MoutonDate
2021Citation
10.1515/9783110711592-008
Esteban, Avelino Corral. "A Functional Discourse Grammar account of voice in Plains Algonquian Languages". Interfaces in Functional Discourse Grammar: Theory and Applications, edited by Lucia Contreras-García and Daniel García Velasco, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. 259-302.
ISBN
978-31-107114-7-9DOI
10.1515/9783110711592-008Editor's Version
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110711592-008Subjects
Pragmatics-Semantics-Syntax interface; Voice; Plains Algonquian languages; Functional Discourse Grammar; FilologíaRights
© 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbHAbstract
Algonquian languages have always attracted considerable interest due
to their rich and complex grammar, and this paper offers an account of voice
in Plains Algonquian languages (USA) within the theoretical framework of Functional
Discourse Grammar (Hengeveld 2004; Hengeveld and Mackenzie 2006,
2008). One of the main reasons why the study of this grammatical phenomenon
seems so interesting is because it concerns every grammatical level (especially,
the morphosyntactic, semantic, and pragmatic levels). Thus, the main purpose of
the paper is, firstly, to explore the correlation between the pragmatic, semantic,
and syntactic properties of a passive-style construction in these Algonquian languages;
secondly, I analyse how the Functional Discourse Grammar model represents
this interaction; and thirdly, I examine the possible mismatches that arise
from the correspondence between levels. Finally, the findings will serve to shed
light on whether the Algonquian direct / inverse distinction should be treated in
the same manner as the active / passive voice alternation. This theory has been
chosen because it is strongly typologically-oriented, concerns both sentence
grammar and discourse structure, and, consequently, seems ideally suited to the
study of voice in Plains Algonquian languages
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